Quotes About Relic

Starting in the early 1800s, Southerners in the United States began to defend slavery as their 'peculiar institution,' and northerners didn't mind, since the phrase suggested that chattel bondage was quarantined from the rest of the nation: that it was, or soon would be, a relic of its past and would not define its future.

Few people know that, by canon law, each and every Catholic altar must contain a holy relic.

She looked, Inspector Curry reflected, exactly as the relict of a canon of the Established Church should look—which was almost odd, because so few people ever did look like what they really were. Even the tight line of her lips had an ascetic ecclesiastical flavour. She expressed Christian Endurance, and possibly Christian Fortitude. But not, Curry thought, Christian Charity.

Some Palaeolithic heroes survived in later mythical literature. The Greek hero Herakles, for example, is almost certainly a relic of the hunting period.

I suppose if a man has something once, always something of it remains.

Nature in America has always been suspect, on the defensive, cannibalized by progress. In America, every specimen becomes a relic.

Nature is relic of pre-human civilizations.

I never want to see umbrellas around me," he [Mussolini] once said. "The umbrella is a bourgeois relic, it is the arm used by the pope's soldiers. A people who carry umbrellas cannot found an empire.

Hunting is a relic of the barbarism that once thirsted for human blood, but is now content with the blood of animals.

Mean systems scapegoat and demoralize. They attack people instead of problems. They're a relic of a primitive and superstitious past. They are not data driven.

Perhaps she too had kept her memory of him as something apart; but if she had, it must have been like a relic in a small dim chapel, where there was not time to pray every day...

This Rock has become an object of veneration in the United States. I have seen bits of it carefully preserved in several towns in the Union. Does this sufficiently show that all human power and greatness is in the soul of man? Here is a stone which the feet of a few outcasts pressed for an instant; and the stone becomes famous; it is treasured by a great nation; its very dust is shared as a relic.

More than amazing. It might actually be the skull of Moses. Wow. Just wow.

There, scuttling across the floor, blind and querulous, is the old cell phone—scrabbling and bulky, trying to get away from you.

Henry Ford believed the soul of a person is located in their last breath and so captured the last breath of his best friend Thomas Edison in a test tube and kept it evermore. It is on display at the Henry Ford Museum outside Detroit, like Galileo's finger in the church of Santa Croce, but Edison's last breath is an invisible relic.

I'm afraid the way I think is an anthropological relic.

And exactly how old are you, MacRieve?" "Twelve hundred, give or take." She glanced back at him, as though gauging if he was jesting. When he raised his brows, she said, "Great Hekate, you're a relic. Don't you have a museum exhibit to be in somewhere?

relic for the next few months, had pointed out that the path the truck was roaring down was the actual track followed by the stagecoaches in the 1800s. Amazing! To think, she was standing where pioneers had waited, watching their stagecoaches

There was before the war little powder or ammunition of any kind stored in the Southern States, and this was a relic of the war with Mexico.

Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

I suppose if a man has something once, always something of it remains.

THE TABLECLOTH OF TURIN

relic from an old schoolhouse: a cast-iron base